Enhancing Your Printing; Print Quality And Fonts - Epson LQ-1050X User Manual

Enhancing Your Printing

You can obtain a wide variety of printing effects with your
printer from changing the number of characters per inch to using
special effects on selected words and phrases. This section gives
you a sampling of the features you may select with your
software.
For software control of these features, see the instructions for
your application programs or look up their specific commands in
the Command Summary in Chapter 9.

Print Quality and Fonts

The printer has three levels of print quality: SuperDraft, normal
draft, and Letter Quality (LQ). Draft printing speeds are controlled
by DIP switch 1-6.
SuperDraft is ideal for rough drafts and large documents or reports
that you need to print quickly. Normal draft takes a bit longer but
offers higher resolution characters. Finally, Letter Quality takes even
longer, but produces darker, more fully-formed characters suitable
for presentation-quality documents.
For Letter Quality printing, the printer offers nine fonts. See
Chapter 3 for information on the fonts and how to select them.
Note: SuperDraft is available only with 10 cpi printing.
Underlining and double-width printing can be combined with
SuperDraft. If other enhancements or character spacings are
selected, the printer switches to normal draft speed. SuperDraft
resumes again after the features are turned off.
Software and Graphics
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